قراءة كتاب The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor

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The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor

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Johnston Annie F (Annie Fellows)

دار النشر: Project Gutenberg

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II. At Ware's Wigwam 19 III. In Beauty's Quest 31 IV. Mary's "Promised Land" 43 V. At "The Locusts" 58 VI. The Fox and the Stork 70 VII. The Coming of the Bride 88 VIII. At the Beeches 113 IX. "Something Blue" 136 X. "A Coon Hunt" 158 XI. The Four-leaved Clover 178 XII. The Wedding 198 XIII. Dreams and Warnings 216 XIV. A Second Maid of Honor 241 XV. The End of the House-party 258 XVI. The Golden Leaf of Honor 275

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	page
"Lloyd ... took her place beside the harp" (See page 68)	Frontispiece
"It needed no second glance to tell him who she was"	20
"He was leaning forward in his chair, talking to joyce"	66
"A tall, athletic figure in outing flannels"	84
"A long-drawn 'o-o-oh' greeted the beautiful tableau"	132
"'All you girls standing with your hands stuck through the bars'"	163
"'They stepped in and rowed off down the shining waterway'"	171
"'One, two, three—THROW!'"	253

THE LITTLE COLONEL,
MAID OF HONOR

CHAPTER I.

AT WARWICK HALL

It was mid-afternoon by the old sun-dial that marked the hours in Warwick Hall garden; a sunny afternoon in May. The usual busy routine of school work was going on inside the great Hall, but no whisper of it disturbed the quiet of the sleepy old garden. At intervals the faint clang of the call-bell, signalling a change of classes, floated through the open windows, but no buzz of recitations reached the hedge-hidden path where Betty Lewis sat writing.

The whole picturesque place seemed as still as the palace of the Sleeping Beauty. Even the peacocks on the terraced river-front stood motionless, their resplendent tails spread out in the sun; and

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